As US sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemical products have taken hold, some of the world’s shipping fleets have defied the restrictions by “going dark”.
Officials said the president had initially approved attacks on a handful of Iranian targets, like radar and missile batteries.
“Trump’s credibility is about as solid as a snake oil salesman”
Prince Mohammed bin Zayed grew the U.A.E.’s power by following America’s lead. He now has an increasingly bellicose agenda of his own. And Trump seems to be following him.
"In my view, what we should be doing is telling Saudi Arabia — which is a despotic, murderous regime — that they have got to start sitting down and negotiating with Iran to create peace"
“This is a crisis that has entirely been manufactured by the Trump administration,”
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East.
Iran is warning that it may resume production on its nuclear program, reviving a crisis that had been contained by the signing of the Iran...
The Trump administration has reached a critical juncture in its efforts to tighten United States oil sanctions against Iran and Venezuela.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left open the possibility on Wednesday of entering a conflict with Iran without first seeking explicit congressional approval.
Won’t Israeli society at some point also feel the nefarious effects of its government’s inhumanity toward us?
The growing prominence of the B.D.S. movement — and the backlash to it — is widening fault lines from college campuses to Capitol Hill. Aka, Sanders vs Clinton.
The United States’ attempts to isolate Iran, including by punishing Iraqi militias and politicians who are supported by Iranian officials, has deepened tensions not only...
“What she said was she had been involved in horrific war crimes with the Air Force,” said Kevin Barrett, a controversial scholar of Islam who had an extensive conversation with Ms. Witt in the gilded lobby of the Parsian Azadi hotel. “And she just felt really bad about it.”
The Christian right doesn’t like Trumpt only for his judges. They like his style. The great thing about kings like Cyrus, as far as Christian nationalists are concerned, is that they don’t have to follow rules. They are the law.
International nuclear inspectors reported Tuesday evening that their mission to Iran had failed, with Tehran blocking their access to a site the inspectors believe could...
An Iranian official has confirmed that the government halted the death sentence by stoning of a woman charged with adultery, but he reiterated that she...
Mitsui officials said that crew members on the ship, the M. Star, had seen a flash and heard an explosion. They also dismissed earlier speculation...
U.S. officials say Amiri U.S. officials say Amiri voluntarily defected to the United States, then got cold feet, perhaps worried about his family in Tehran,...
CAIRO — As Iran’s universities prepare to start classes this month, there is growing concern within the academic community that the government will purge political...
While the young man was not identified, his charges were graphic and emotional, and documented official indifference — even callousness — toward his account. “I...
“I loved the city of Qum, which has beautiful turquoise dome mosques like a city you would imagine in ‘1001 Nights,’” Mr. Yaghobzadeh said. “There...
The accounts of prison abuse in Iran’s postelection crackdown — relayed by relatives and on opposition Web sites — have set off growing outrage among...
The wife of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi spoke out forcefully on Thursday against the recent publication of accusations against her imprisoned brother,...
A young woman, her clothing covered in blood, ran up Kargar Street, paused for a moment and said, “I am not scared, because we are...
One of the most recent arrests, of Bijan Khajehpour, an independent political economist, sent a chill deeper yet into Iran’s civil society because he had...
State-run television has interviewed protesters who said the Persian channel influenced them to take to the streets. One woman said the channel inspired her and...
Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman for the Guardian Council, declared: “If a major breach occurs in an election, the Guardian Council may annul the votes that...
Despite his forceful words, however, Mr. Obama is still resisting calls from conservatives and Republicans to harshly and publicly condemn the Iranian government and impose...
“It is my gut feeling that Iran would like to have the technology to enable it to have nuclear weapons,” Dr. ElBaradei, the director general...
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